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On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:44:43 Dale did opine thusly: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena major |
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> > clusterfuck for me. And where I come from, that kind of |
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> > monumental cock-up in a QA'ed release gets you fired. Or at |
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> > least busted down to maintenance coder. Grrrrrrr... |
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> Pissed off much? Just curious. I couldn't tell for sure. ROFLMBO |
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Nah, not so much anymore. |
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But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday. You know that |
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notice on the console when you get sudo wrong? It says the incident |
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"will be reported" |
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OK. But to whom? On my shell boxes it gets reported to me. And |
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yesterday this is what it said: |
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<host> : Jun 21 11:55:25 : <user> : 1 incorrect password attempt ; |
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TTY=pts/194 ; PWD=/some/path ; USER=root ; COMMAND=init 6 |
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500 concurrent sessions on that box is routine, it's a major gateway |
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server. That poor user has not recovered yet. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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